Going to do something different with this post and start
with a quote and that is;
Blood is thicker than water. It’s quite a common saying,
meaning basically that the relationship between you and your family is stronger
than any relationship you have with your friends. If your in a predicament and
don’t know whether to side with what your family is saying or a friend, this
saying encourages you to pick family over them every time because your ‘blood
related’. I have to say I could not disagree more with it.
I don’t know what inspired me to write about this, it just
popped into my head the other day and I got thinking about it. Before you go
thinking I have an awful family or that I have issues with them, I don’t. Just
need to clarify that one. But I suppose I’m not as close with my family as
other people are, everybody is different though.
Literally blood is thicker than water, but if I’m being
honest I have relatives that don’t know half as much about me as my friends do
so therefore I’m just not one of them people who can put family first all the
time. That may make me sound like a terrible person, if it does sorry but it’s
the truth. Its not that I like my family any less, but my friends are also just
as important to me.
First off let me just say that I have amazing friends, I
really really do. Im not just being biast either, because I know the kind of
friendships I have don’t come around often, and everyday I thank my lucky stars
I have them. Wow, this might be a cheese fest- so sorry haha! A friend to me is
someone who you can be completely 100 percent yourself infront of, someone who
can make you smile on the shittiest of days, someone who can make you literally
sore for laughing and well, you get the idea. The things I’ve got up to with
friends have been some of my best memories, and it makes me sad to think of
anyone who doesn’t have friends because I would literally not know what to do
without mine.
In the past, Ive had some particularly difficult problems,
some of which are still with me today and I never told any of my family about
it. I think I knew they wouldn’t really understand and would look at me
differently so to this day they don’t know what went on. However, my friends
were there from day 1 and the amount of support I got from them still amazes me
today. They knew the ins and outs and they didn’t run a mile when Im sure I
must have been pretty difficult to be around. They were always there at the end
of the phone, coming up to see me, making sure I wasn’t on my own and most
importantly, helping me to forget. I wouldn’t be the person I am today without
them, Im positive of that.
I can count on 10 fingers the friends I have that I consider
good friends, always have a laugh with, can talk about anything with and love
to spend time with. I can count on 5 the friends that have been there when it
really mattered, have such great friendships with and I love to bits. I can
count on just one finger the friend that I completely trust with anything, who
I would be just lost without and is the bestest and most rare friendship I have
ever been in. I’d say we were like sisters, but I've never had a sister and I’d
be tempted to say we were even closer than that!
So you may be able to see why I cannot rank friends below
family, as they all make me smile on a daily basis, whether it be from a
random, funny, inside joke text or almost getting run over whilst running to
find a toilet with me haha (yes that has happened). Some have gone completly out of their way to do something things for me so I always try and do the same back. I can be incredibly defensive over them too because if you hurt them, you annoy me and I'll come after you and go all liamneesonintaken on your ass! haha! So, to conclude my little
post about friendship I’ll leave you with another quote, one of which I prefer.
Blood is thicker than water, but without water you can’t
survive.
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